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Chapter 1679 VCD Prototype
Time came to December in a blink of an eye. Although it has entered winter, the weather in Shenzhen is still much warmer than that in the north. At this time, Duan Yun got two good news.

The first good news is that, in less than three months, the R&D team of Tianyin Group has already made a VCD sample machine, and after internal testing, the quality of the image and the stability of the machine Sex is satisfactory and fully meets Duan Yun's requirements.

A few years ago, Tianyin Group definitely did not have such a strong research and development strength. A new product, especially a new product developed for the first time in the world, was simply impossible without a one- to two-year research and development cycle. However, Duan Yun has already made the first batch of prototypes in just two and a half months.

This batch of prototypes is a total of three units, and there are 5 discs. After 72 hours of repeated playback, the performance of the machine is still very good, and the picture quality is better than that of video recorders and imported laser disc players. Obviously better.

The reason why he was able to achieve such success is that the most important thing is that VCD is a product that Duan Yun personally participated in the research and development of. Before formally presiding over technical experts to carry out sample research and development, he had already broken through the VCD-related software and hardware principles he had mastered in his previous life. The most critical core technology is precisely because of this. After he organized a meeting of R&D personnel to discuss and issued a complete R&D plan, it was a matter of course that the finished product could be completed in a short time.

In addition, the research and development period issued by Duan Yun this time is only 4 months, and the person in charge of the technical project who participates in the research and development of VCD and MD products is rewarded as high as 100 million yuan. Now, all the technicians are like chicken blood, working about 12 hours a day, and 5 of them are in charge of technical projects, simply bring their own bedding to the office, and eat and live 24 hours a day Just in the office, it can be seen how attractive the reward of one million yuan is to them.

However, compared with the successful development of the first finished product of VCD, the research and development of MD players has temporarily stagnated. The main reason is that the degree of circuit integration of MD is too high, and many core chips are produced by Japanese manufacturers. Yes, and with the current level of microelectronics in China, although players similar to MD can be made, the volume needs to be so bulky that it cannot meet Duan Yun's requirements at all. In addition, the mechanical part of MD involves precision machining. , In terms of the current domestic and processing level, there is still a huge gap with Japan. Therefore, there are still many technical bottlenecks that need to be overcome if we want to produce an MD player with the same size and quality as Sony in Japan.

However, even if only a sample of VCD is produced, it is a very happy thing for Duan Yun, because judging from the situation in his previous life, VCD is a high-profit product that has been selling well for 10 years , and from the beginning of its birth, MD can only be regarded as a relatively niche product compared with VCD, because it is expensive, and it is easier to damage and harder to repair than Walkmans, so it has not sold very well in China. Ordinary people still prefer high-quality and cheap tape players.

Therefore, for Duan Yun, as long as the VCD sample is successfully developed, it has already fulfilled the company's next strategic needs. As for the MD player, Duan Yun regards it more as a technical accumulation, and it will be used for future MP3 players. Some technical reserves.

In the company's large conference room, Duan Yun held a celebration party for the successful development of VCD.

Because the MD player sample has not yet been produced, according to Duan Yun’s promise at the time, this is a reward of 5 RMB for each of the five project leaders who participated in the VCD research and development. The general bill, the eyes of all who attended the meeting.

"Everyone has worked hard during this period. As I said at the beginning, in our Tianyin Group, you will reap the rewards for your hard work. Your talents and sweat will be rewarded. This is also an excellent platform for you to prove the value of life... ..." In the meeting room, Duan Yun made an impassioned opening speech to the crowd, and the scene continued to burst into warm applause.

During the awards ceremony, each project leader took a group photo with the hill-like banknotes neatly placed in the conference room. Since the 90th edition of 100 yuan has not yet been officially issued, the number of 50 yuan of 10 yuan banknotes is really high. There are too many, so Duan Yun has arranged in advance to have dozens of security personnel of the company pack 250 million yuan in more than 20 large suitcases, and finally help these award-winning personnel escort the money into the bank.

In addition to the person in charge of these research and development technology projects, Duan Yun also gave 50 yuan to all ordinary technicians who participated in the research and development of VCD this time. Yun spent a total of 6000 million yuan in bonuses.

Duan Yun also knew in his heart that once this kind of VCD is put into the market, it will bring very rich profit returns to Tianjin Group, and it will become a competitive product, occupying a place in the domestic audio-visual market for a long time.

In order to prevent other domestic manufacturers from pirating the design patents of VCD products, at this commendation meeting, Duan Yun also specifically proposed to prevent piracy of VCD products.

Telling Group can be said to be the first company in China's electronics industry to start product anti-piracy research, and already has some mature technologies in terms of hardware anti-piracy.

At present, Tianyin Group's anti-piracy system is divided into three types. One is to encrypt the programming interface of the chip to prevent people from using related tools to inject firmware into the chip or read the content of the chip. The most effective of these is to enable the encryption bit.

The second method is to pack the hardware. The format and meaning of the data inside the stone will change. At that time, the product had already been eliminated by the market.

The last one is to use a unique ID chip, firmware and hardware binding, so that the exact same hardware cannot be copied. This is the most technically difficult and costly of the three anti-piracy versions, and it also has the best effect.

Duan Yun plans to adopt the last anti-piracy method. Duan Yun has his own chip and software research and development team, as well as the most advanced chip factory in China. From this perspective, Tianyin Group is also the only one in China that can give itself Manufacturers of electronic products that use this unique ID anti-piracy method.

(End of this chapter)